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From: Pierre_BONNAL <bonnal@mt.msm.cern.ch>
Subject: Fuzzy logic and Project Scheduling
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 18:03:48 GMT
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I'm involved as a lead planner, in scheduling large projects.
Currently I do work on the LHC project (the CERN's Large Hadron
Collider, an undergrounded 27 km long superconducting ring to
provide proton-proton collisions at energies around 14 TeV,
a ten year CHF 5'000'000'000 project, i.e. 3 billons of US $,
amazing isn't it ?).

In the seventies few probabilistic techniques have been implemented
to help planners in planning and scheduling (of course !).  These
techniques are known under accronisms such as (VERT, GERT...).  Most
of them are based on the Monte-Carlo technique.

I just would like to know, if someone has already applied the fuzzy
set theory to this field (project planning).  If yes, are articles
or books (or even software) being published (or edited), and which
are they ?

Heuristic techniques have widely been used.  On R&D projects, there
is not a single logic, I'm sure that it should be interesting to
implement a fuzzy logic based technique for appreciating durations
on such projects.

Thanks a lot to the ones who might light on my lantern.

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  Pierre BONNAL
  CERN (European Lab for Particle Physics)
  Division des Technologies Mecaniques
  CH-1211 GENEVE 23 - Suisse (Switzerland)

  tel. (41) 22 767 4807
  fax. (41) 22 767 6595
  e-m. bonnal@mt.msm.cern.ch
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